The benchmark of action movies, classic action movies to share --- "Prison in the Air"

"Prison in the Air" was filmed in 1997, and one of the main actors was Nicolas Cage, who starred in another classic action in 1996, "Brave to Die Island". Although the two movies participated in are action movies, the role played is a fledgling rookie FBI, one is a retired iron-blooded tough guy in the army, two roles that are very different, but the "king of bad films" can be attacked, retreated, and acted like nothing.

Action movies are not called action movies if they don't have "action". There have always been people who say that Hollywood movies are all personal heroism, and we can't make this. Jackie Chan's action movies are also all personal heroism, and they are not worse than Hollywood movies. Seriously, it is really difficult to make a classic movie like "Prison in the Air" in China now. In the era of traffic, the main star actors are idols who have wade through the knife mountain and swim through the sea of fire, but the hairstyle will not be messy, how can this make a good action movie?

What is an action movie, or what is a good action movie, for example, to stimulate, to stimulate the kind of adrenal hormones. And Prison in the Air is like that. It is very simple to summarize the plot of "Prison in the Air" to experience the action elements.

A manslaughter veteran is caught up in an escape feast conspired by a group of vicious criminals, and he has nothing to do with it because his brother and innocent police officer choose to stay in it and settle the trouble.

In fact, the plot is very simple, at first glance, it can be said to be a very conventional action movie plot design. But there are too many details of the elements that can be expanded. The screenwriter did it, and the whole movie plot was really, very solid, very, very exciting.

There is a saying that many people should have heard, that is, an event, through the perspective of different parties, it will become a lot of different stories. I don't mean to say that Prison in the Air is as multi-perspective as Rashomon, but to emphasize the importance of perspective.

Many stories pass through the protagonist's point of view, and the protagonist is also the protagonist of the whole story. If you don't grasp it well, it is easy to pull the crotch, and it will become a running account, what the protagonist has done, what he has done, and what he has done. It's like "No Time to Die." Please forgive me for hacking "No Time to Die" again.

One of the rich and wonderful stories of Prison in the Air is that the protagonist is not at the heart of the event at the beginning. The event does not revolve around the protagonist, but the protagonist is involved in an event as an outsider, and through the participation of the protagonist, a new event is triggered and revealed through the perspective of the protagonist. Similar to compound events, simply put, the film has more than one story line, a main line, other branches, and even dark lines.

The advantage of the narrative perspective is that the film is more like a "group of males" drama than the "two males" setting. Because of the protagonist, that is, Cage's outsider perspective, other characters have a very generous space to show in front of us, that is, the supporting characters are richer and more colorful. For example, the criminals. Friends who have read "Water Margin" should know that fierce characters generally have nicknames. The characters in "Prison in the Air" are either "deadly viruses" or "rabid dogs" or "Frankenstein". Every villain is portrayed with a board and an eye. This undoubtedly increases the excitement of the film, how will the protagonist respond to being in a group of wolves?

Generally speaking, there will be green leaves next to the protagonist, which are used to set off the protagonist, just like the funny and praise in crosstalk. The film can more easily shape the protagonist through the green leaves next to the protagonist. Generally, the two male movies complement each other, you lining me, I lining you. "Prison in the Air" Due to the richness of the story line, the male second single-handedly picks up a branch line to show the story from another perspective, fully serving the story itself, can this story not be wonderful?

The villain of the story is more interesting, he is the protagonist of the whole event, and the male protagonist is an outsider who has messed into his event. A large part of the story is driven by the villain, and actor John Markovich perfectly portrays a resourceful villain boss.

The beginning of the story is also very telling, and it is said that Cage discussed the role with the director and suggested that the director add it. Mainly to introduce some of the background of the protagonist, the situation and other shots, is really the essence. Only if the audience likes the character and becomes interested in the character, will they care about the character's next encounter, right?

Regarding the action scenes, it's hard to imagine that this is director Simon West's debut. It's too fried, both inside and outside the words. Smashing, exploding, destroying, the funds burn while trying to squeeze out the audience's adrenaline hormones. It's hard to describe that feeling in words, similar to the refreshing pleasure that satisfies people's subconscious destructive desires. The action scenes of this movie are like this.

The song "Sweet Home Alabama" in the movie cannot be left untouched. It's a rock song from the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it's really good. Interesting is the home of the male protagonist, and the story begins in Alabama. Three members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd also died in an air crash. There is an homage to the band in the film, and the song played is "Sweet Home Alabama", which is really good.